Love this man😂😂😂

I was born in 1965...loved him!!! I still love him in "Bye, Bye Birdie"!

I only saw the sitcom on youtue it wasn't great. However, I loved him everywhere. He will always be Uncle Arthur

One of the funniest bewitched episodes was when Uncle Arthur was going to teach Darrin an incantation to get Endora to back off when she got nasty. He gives Darrin a kazoo and a cowbell and makes him sing the "yagga zoozy song". I laughed out loud and I still do. Darrin is singing this stupid song and playing the kazoo and shaking the cowbell and Uncle Arthur is back in the hallway laughing so hard he is losing it.

Agreed

Buddy's laugh sounded fake.

Yeah I miss Buddy, Paul , and Charley Weaver ( Cliff Arquette , a very interesting man in real life).

Can't stand Buddy Hackett!

@@elizabethroy1079 Any reason?

Paul Lynde acts the same way in every role he plays. The reason that he was not more successful in Hollywood was because of his limited range. For the most part Lynde was funny yet he could be cruel at times.

Paul Lynde died of a heart attack in 1982 at age 55. It was a devastating loss to the whole world. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

Ecckky eccky poo poo!

40yrs really wow

@@adairadair9490that make you around 70 years old.🤓

Awwww. Karen Valentine was visibly embarrassed😢

Zta

Loved Paul!😅😅😂😊

​ taq😅

HIS ZINGERS WERE SCRIPTED

Now you’re old.😳😳🧐🤭

Alan Alda was good too

Perfect Spot for him. 👍

Agnes Moorehead was a seasoned actress and Bewitched was lucky to have her. Paul and she had a lot of similarities in ability to deliver lines. Check out how she and many co-workers died.

He was very funny. One would never have known that ne was really a sad fellow.

Did he really ad lib his lines on Bewitched? He was amazing.

Paul was such a handsome guy.

​@@barbaraflowers759 Most comediennes are. They turn to comedy to get them through.

that line was written for him

@@jmarlo Exactly. They all were, lol. He was performer who was given a script. Whenever people picked the center square, he was given a Paul Lynde-specific question. His claim to fame was the way he delivered those pre-written, sometimes risqué, humorous responses.

@@CarbonTech19 ok if you say so

They had a writer write the jokes for them

@@Kimidoyle I'm only repeating what everyone connected with the show says. HS was a comedy show, disguised as a game show, and had a staff of writers writing the questions, their plausible bluff answers, and of course, the all important comedic zingers. Each week, they filmed that week's 5 episodes, in one day. Each star had their own dedicated set of questions(you can often see Peter Marshall carefully selecting a star specific question), and prior to an episode's filming, the stars were taken aside and without revealing the actual questions(which they technically heard for the first time on camera), were supplied with correct answers, plausible bluffs and in certain cases, comedic zingers. Paul Lynde, being the center square, got picked more often than the others, and was the main purveyor of the comedy writers' efforts, written specifically for Paul Lynde's "voice", based on who he was and how he was perceived. So 3-5, at most, jokes per episode, delivered in his inimitable style. To use the joke above, prior to filming that episode, Lynde was told that bikers wear leather to prevent road rash, though some people think it's to keep warm, but it's definitely not because chiffon wrinkles too easily. Boom! It's locked in his short term memory and when he hears the actual question for the first time, he's got the zinger on deck and when the laughter dies down he's free to reply with the correct answer, the plausible bluff or some other answer. Next time he's called, he's got another one of those 3-5 sets of answer packages , he was just briefed on, to help him reply with. The gameplay was legit and the stars were free to answer how they saw fit-bluff or answer correctly, but only after they delivered their zinger, IF they actually had one written for them. That's why some of the other stars' "jokes" seem weak, they are supplying their own, spur of the moment, attempts at cleverness. Obviously, Paul Lynde was free to paraphrase or come up with his own improvements on the supplied zinger and might very well have, from time to time, but as I said, his claim to fame was his perfect delivery of those supplied jokes.

Thanks so glad

I got the jokes but tv was my babysitter.

I enjoyed this show as a teen, or a pre-teen.

A great show

Absolutely me too!

Yup, "He was a po sharecropper's son back in Georgia! " :P

He

Most if not all Hollywood stars are the same in that regard, poor before rich.

There are many brilliant and hilarious poor people. They just happened to not be born wealthy.

Also, he was a gay man in a much more homophobic time. It was a blessing he survived to old age rather than being the victim of a hate crime.

That's when I first seen him

He had a great part on Bewitched when he was sitting on the couch and claimed, "my feet are killing me." They pan to his feet and they both have handguns pointed at him shooting. Probably my favorite TV scene ever.

Omg. Somehow I never knew that, but ai can hear him singing A Fair is a veritable smorgasbord- makes sense. Edit - I just watched it on KZfaq and the goose that tells him about it is Agnes Moorhead, who was Endora

I agree! Too bad he was a tortured soul in REALITY.

@@russhook6595 like RobbinWilliamsadLy that struggle took hiz life..

His zingers were written for him

@@caperboy1169 True but the delivery was on point

@@tino6846 that’s what made him so good

He ran a clinic on comedic timing and delivery.

Same. Nobody cared. But no gay man could live free. ( I’m 57 ) He was great

@@otterhead44 He was a lot of things, but great wasn't one of them.

I still don’t care who’s guy.

I feel the same!

Love Paul Lynn!!!

Yes Peter Marshall was awesome!

​@@janetbonner8735 👍 Yep! 😊

always good to laugh.

That's wonderful! I love him and I also have depression. Laughter is healing !❤

@@crisprtalk6963 STOP CONsuming DEATH, (DEAD animals) and that will improve your mood tremendously! Now....GO BACK IN YER COMA.

Russ Hook ease up on the drinking

He put me in one...just kidding. Good for you, Patti!

Bob Peterman Charles Nelson Reilly was a good one,too.

4:36 for those looking.

Agreed, Eric...that was hysterical!!!

So quick witted! I envy that!!

@INTERNETWORK l never thought about it before but you are right their styles are somewhat similar.

@INTERNETWORK We have all 'borrowed' our IDIOTsyncrocies Juan time or another. Lynde had a good SCHTICK though!

lol....you do know all these things paul says were written for him..dont you?

yes. it was explained by marshall. it was up to them to come up with their own witty funny answers or give the correct answer

Jade Zee No it wasn't. And you can tell by (some) delays and some (rare) unfunny answers by him.

i agree paul was the bedt, i remember seeing this show as a 9 or 10 yesr old

+Lynn Bechard-Hulley Wrong, fact they were briefed ahead of time with the questions and Paul had writers. This is a fact not a opinion. That doesn’t mean he didn’t come up with some answers on the fly.

Did Paul use HYPHENS instead of PERIODS too, son?

Untapped?? He used everything he had to its fullest potential.

Love him! Laughter is wonderful! I have depression also.❤

jeez...all these answers were written for him....he didnt try to keep anything clean cause he was reading his answers

He was flaming and he read prepared answers that he didn't write

you realize that he was furnished the questions before the game so he can think of a witty answer before they go on the air... all the celebs would be treated like that...

+speedster.....and You realize that if any other celebrity had given the exact same answer....it would not have been anywhere as funny..

lol so they would have though up the exact answer as each other? they have questions specific for each celebrity... if someone picks paul, peter has a stack of questions that are just for paul, etc... stop commenting on things you know nothing about.

+ndspeedster.....obviously you're too stupid to get the point...it was the way he said things that made them funny. Again, you're too stupid to understand that....and that makes you angry......good....stay angry.

im stupid? lol ive probably forgotten more than you will ever know while you surf the net in your mom's basement. moron. I get the point..but you don't obviously. except the point under your baseball hat which is probably turned backwards and stained with Cheetos dust you fat fuck.

Paul Lynde was hilarious as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

I remember Paul Lynne on a episode of the Munsters where he played a Doctor that was doing a Physical on Herman and he was trying to find his Glasses and when he finally did his reaction was "whole cow what happened!

Me too. He told Samantha it was to give Darrin confidence. There was no spell on it.

Plus, she was a very good sport, the way she was willing to react!! 😉

Don Crabbe he actually didn’t thinking up them, they were all written by his own writers.

@@rachaelbly6714 NOPE

Cliff often got questions on American history; he was a history buff.

I read once that some of the stars were given questions in advance to prepare these zingers. Very few were truly ad-libbed

One year later!

Adversity is often the inspiration for greatness. In the world you imagine, he may not have evolved into the genius he was.

Especially now that the left has killed comedy; it’s doubtful that any of the greats Bruce, Rickles, Rivers, Lynde, etc could survive today’s cancel culture .

​@@thomasmagnum3588 I don't think that the left has "killed comedy"; I think it's just made more people have to consider other people's feelings.😊

@@CanvasCanary Ask the comedians. Or the movie directors. Most say that so of the funniest movies and tv shows ever made could not me made today because everyone is “so easily offended” (same as ‘a lack of humor’).

Actually, I think he had more than one! 😊

I was too young back then to appreciate his sense of humor. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

best comment on the threat.

kingfish4242 And Templeton Rat as well!

From bewitched?

True; I mostly was bothered more by his occasional racist-color slur-type jokes!😮

Not even funny

And sadly prophetic.

Who knew this would be a relevant question today

❤ you’re so lucky!!!!

My classic Paul Lynde response was when he was asked why Elizabeth Taylor married so many times? His response was that she didn't want to eat alone at the dinner table. From Ms. Harper Stacey.